Ukrainian Crisis Misrepresented in Mainstream Press

By Pete Papaherakles —

The establishment media continues to misrepresentevents in Ukraine to portrayRussian President Vladimir Putin as an invaderand the uprising as a struggle for democracy by freedom-loving rebels. Nothing couldbe further from the truth.

Although the media is talking about how Russia has invaded Ukraine, little is said about the $5B spent by the United States government to aid protesters in staging a coup, which illegally took control of the country in late February. The overthrow was orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , the State Department and by Washington-and European Union (EU)-financed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that work in conjunction with U.S. intelligence.

The U.S. and the EU have been trying to bring Ukraine under their sphere of influence for manyyears in order to exploit the country’s resources and to economically and militarily undermine Russia.U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bases in Ukraine would further surround Russia and threaten its status as Europe’s main energy provider. Currently, 66% of Russian oilinto Europe flows through Ukraine.

Russia has huge interests in Ukraine, from theBlack Sea fleet stationed in the Crimea to millions ofRussians living there and a long history of strong economic and political ties with Ukraine and willnot allow the west to take it over.

“The West-East divide is highly exaggerated,” said Johnson. “Ukrainian nationalism has its rootsin eastern, not western Ukraine, especially the city of Kharkov, on the Russian border. Dividing upUkraine simply into east and west is an oversimplification.”

Johnson explained that the country is already overwhelmingly pro-Russian despite what is beingconveyed in the Western mainstream media.

“In Eastern Ukraine, positive assessments ofRussia are about 93-95% and in the south and Kievarea about 80%,” he said. “In Western Ukraine about 55-65% have positive views while only 20% have negativeassessments. Western Ukraine is strange inthat a sizable percentage is undecided.”

This undecided or anti-Russian minority in Western Ukraine is by no means monolithic, however. The uprising was heavily influenced by pro-Western Jewish elements, which control most of the media and commerce in Ukraine as well as many pro-Western politicians, including shady “Orange Revolution” former Prime Minister Yulia Tymochenko, who was let out of prison during the uprising. The Jewish Telegraph Agency confirmed that even soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces were involved in the Maidan protest movement, which toppled the Yanukovich government.

Ironically, they fought under the direct commandof the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party.

Asked how the Jewish element plays into theequation, Johnson replied: “It is huge. Even liberalparties in Ukraine are anti-Jewish. The government that began the ‘privatization’ meltdown was led byYefim Zviahilsky. Those structuring the programwere also Jewish.”

The dominant oligarchs from the 1990s up to today are almost all Jewish, with names like Feldman,Pinchuk, Surkis, Zhevaho, Chernoveckiy, Rabinovich, Medvedchuk, Poroshenko, Bogolyubov,Tymoshenko, Firtash, Taruta, Hayduk and manyothers. Pichuk, Surkis and Medvedchuk are in control of the major media outlets in the print mediaand television.

Dr. Johnson also said that the U.S. has little leverage here. “The U.S. is a dying empire,” he said. “There is nopolitical will for any future war.”

Asked how he sees the current situation unfoldingin the near and distant future, Johnson said: “Belarusand Russia are growing. They have a great degree of trust in their leadership, though that has fallen sincethe economy has continued its downward spiral, and most of all, they are members of the Shanghai CooperationOrganization [SCO]. This is a Russo-Chinesetrade and security pact that has incorporated much of Central Asia and commits China to backRussia against the West. This is probably the causeof the CIA’s influence in the first place. Putin is dedicated to further Eurasian integration. Now, there,Ukrainian goods will be welcomed.”

Pete Papaherakles is a writer and political cartoonist for AFP and is also AFP’s outreach director. Pete is interested in getting AFP writers and editors on the podium at patriotic events. Call him at 202-544-5977 if you know of an event youthink AFP should attend.